Word: pushed
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...that he had written her and bought her a meal. Discreet marital infidelity among politicians rarely prompts much notice in Japan; involvement with a spy is another matter. One of the chief allegations is that the woman influenced a decision in 1989 by then health minister Hashimoto to push for a large aid package for a Chinese hospital, at a time after the Tiananmen massacre when few countries were willing to deal with China...
...Hong Kong: Leader Tung Chee-wa has managed to push the Pacific Rim's economic jewel into recession, and admitted as much on Tuesday night. Result: The Hang Seng index finished the day down more than 5 percent...
...Still, Lee did spectacularly well -- not only in beating off the kowtowing Liberal Party, but helping to coax out three times the expected number of voters. Now Lee is pressing his moral mandate hard: "We will do our best to push for full democracy in the next elections in the year 2000," he told the South China Morning Post. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is unlikely to budge from the Basic Law blueprint -- that is, eight years till full democracy. Tung isn't in any hurry -- and no wonder. In most democracies, he'd be out of a job today...
...fact that when push came to shove this spring, Gates suddenly started tossing out concessions like bonbons, however, tends to suggest that deep down he's known all along things aren't quite that simple. The past few weeks have been tough on Microsoft. Everyone from the DOJ to foreign governments to a growing band of state attorneys general stood ready to take the company to court. Its latest bumbling p.r. gambit--trotting out computer-industry execs like windup toys to halfheartedly raise the specter of widespread economic disaster should Win 98 be delayed, even for a matter of months...
...push to net-connect every school is an educational disaster in the making. Our schools are in crisis. Statistics prove what I see every day as a parent and a college educator. My wife and I have a constant struggle to get our young boys to master the basic skills they need and our schools hate to teach. As a college teacher, I see the sorry outcome: students who can't write worth a damn, who lack basic math and language skills. Our schools are scared to tell students to sit down and shut up and learn; drill it, memorize...